Thomas Becket Arrives In France, 1164

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Thomas Becket Arrives In France, 1164

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In 1164, Henry II, King of England, summoned Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket to appear before a great council at Northampton Castle, to answer allegations of contempt of royal authority. Convicted on the charges, Becket stormed out of the trial and fled to the Continent. Henry pursued the fugitive archbishop with a series of edicts, but King Louis VII of France offered Becket protection. Becket took a personal retinue of 200 men, with a train of several hundred more, knights and squires, clerics and servants, fine wagons, music and singers, hawks and hounds, monkeys and mastiffs. Cassell's Illustrated History of England, 1865 (cropped and cleaned).

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